Easy Lagg Reducing TipFollow

hey everyone ;-)

just wanted to share a tip that i learned not too long ago.

i have a pretty good system and cable connection. 3.2 ghtz cpu, 256 on board ran vid card, and 2 gig ram (am able to play 3 accounts at once with little to no lag or slow zone times). however, there are a couple of zones that gave me "slow" mouse even if i only had one account running. it used to be just RSS, so i avoided the zone like the plague, nothing like a lagging cleric lol. then they came out with DoD and almost every zone was giving me the "slow" mouse!

well i made a comment in a group about it once, and someone suggested i turn off my shaders. my what? well then they explained to me.

go to options
hit advanced
un-check some or all of the different shaders

POOF!!! lag is gone!

the only draw back to it is i now see a little less detail, example, the stones in PoK i can hardly read now, but that is no matter because i know them all anyway, and if i am not sure, i can check the map. i choose to leave them all turned off all the time because i am too lazy to adjust them as needed. but if you wanted, just turn them off for zones you have trouble in.

try it! it works!


Edited, Fri Nov 4 17:28:39 2005 by Keyera

Yes.

That's a huge contributor to lag.

I'd like to add - Defrag your hard drive to reduce lag as well.

/showspelleffects off

I do not know if this is common knowledge or if a button has been added in options but this helps reduce video lag. It turns off spell and bard song effects.

/showname 1

that helps as well on raids.